We Know Why Trump's Lawyers Wanted to Meet With AG Garland Over Classified Doc Probe

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It’s all political theater. The investigation is a witch hunt. The legal justification for the raid on Mar-a-Lago is arguably illegal and unconstitutional. But there’s another special counsel probe nonetheless that could indict Donald Trump on the classified materials controversy. There were no nuclear secrets on the coffee table. If anything, there were mementos from Trump’s time in the White House, far from the state secrets Joe Biden left all over his Delaware residence and other locations. The former president’s legal recently wanted to meet with Attorney General Merrick Garland about the investigation, which isn’t the best news. Maybe this is why: Trump was caught on tape talking about the materials he left with after his term in office (via CNN):

Federal prosecutors have obtained an audio recording of a summer 2021 meeting in which former President Donald Trump acknowledges he held onto a classified Pentagon document about a potential attack on Iran, multiple sources told CNN, undercutting his argument that he declassified everything. Read more here.